Immortal Father
Chapter 388 - 388 142 Ping'an Calms the Sea Artifact Refining Causes Ripples

388: Chapter 142: Ping’an Calms the Sea, Artifact Refining Causes Ripples 388: Chapter 142: Ping’an Calms the Sea, Artifact Refining Causes Ripples The half month following the Sea Watch Sect’s lecture was the most absurd half month Li Ping’an had experienced in his cultivation journey to date.

In the beginning, he hadn’t paid much attention to this ‘ingenious’ lecture.

Then, a sale, a father’s love, and an accolade caused the situation to spiral out of control.

The incident originated from his lecture to the Sea Watch Sect’s Inner Sect Disciples, wherein he essentially spun a yarn.

In truth, Li Ping’an didn’t consider it a lecture, it felt more like a ‘success talk’.

Only, the core concept of his speech wasn’t about striving, but [happiness].

‘Are you happy?’

‘No, you’re not happy.’

‘What you have is merely a sense of satisfaction from setting goals for yourself and then meeting them, a satisfaction that’s fundamentally conjured out of thin air and doesn’t stem from your heart.’

Wasn’t this line of talk just a blatant case of bamboozling people?

Set a question, then deny, and follow up by fabricating a seemingly plausible theory for teaching.

He had seen his fair share of such rubbish marketed back home.

Li Ping’an would swear on Minister Weiyen’s lower half happiness that this time he really was trying to dupe people, not enlighten them!

He truly wanted to sow division within the Sea Watch Sect!

This wasn’t just about splitting their Dao lineage, but also creating a division in their cultivation philosophy!

After calming down, Li Ping’an reflected on himself.

The internal reasons for the uproar were rather complex.

During those two years struggling along the southeastern border of the Western Continent with Li Ping’an, Ye Zisang had learned a lot and mastered the use of the Liuying Pearls, starting to promote them among his friends and family.

The Liuying Pearl, with a method of creation dating back to ancient times, had also been popular before.

Soon, within a small circle of the Eastern Alliance, the new utility of Liuying Pearls as evidence-gathering Magic Artifacts began to spread.

Therefore, Ye Zisang sent Li Ping’an’s lecture on the Liuying Pearl to the Tianli elder of the Eastern Alliance.

After watching, the elder was delighted and allowed the pearl to circulate.

During its circulation, a few copies of the recording were made.

Later, Ye Zisang swallowed his pride to ask a Heavenly Immortal war general to hurry back to the Eastern Alliance headquarters to retrieve his original Liuying Pearl, unaware that someone had already made copies of the recorded images within.

Some saw a huge business opportunity.

Less than an hour after the original Liuying Pearl was reclaimed, even before the Heavenly Immortal war general returned, vendors in several large towns in the southwestern part of the East Continent had already begun selling [Complete Record of the Near-Immortal’s Sea Watch Sect Lecture], with the price rocketing from six hundred low-grade Spirit Stones to two parcels of low-grade Spirit Stones.

This matter sparked tremendous heated discussion.

‘The fun of Near-Immortal Li taking no offense to enlighten the cultivators of the Sea Watch Sect’ quickly spread among the Qi Cultivators in the southwestern region of the East Continent.

The Wanyun Sect’s throng of Immortals pressing down on the Sea Watch Sect’s gates had already caused quite a stir in the East Continent’s cultivation world.

Now, the Near-Immortal Li Ping’an of the Wanyun Sect had used his broad-mindedness, his incredibly extensive tolerance, to enlighten the Sea Watch Sect’s cultivators, leading to a large number of disciples achieving breakthroughs together;

The topic reached its peak.

Among the Qi Cultivators who purchased the copied recordings, there were some quick thinkers.

Within half a day, various towns in the southwest of the East Continent had seen the release of “Transcriptions of the Near-Immortal’s Sea Watch Sect Lecture,” priced at a hundred Spirit Stones each, causing a frenzy among Loose Cultivators.

From there, the situation became like a rapidly spreading wildfire.

Some Immortals of the Wanyun Sect conducting affairs near the Eastern Alliance headquarters noticed the incident and, upon discovering that the lectures by their own Near-Immortal were circulating in the towns of the southwestern East Continent, promptly purchased two copies and reported the matter to their sect.

Soon, Li Dazhi received a Jade Talisman, read it, and was overjoyed.

Just then, Elder Yansheng had finished inquiring about ‘Wen Rou the Heavenly Immortal’s likes’ and was returning to Dong’an City from the Sea Watch Sect.

Li Dazhi asked Elder Yansheng if he knew of this matter, and upon Yansheng recounting the Sea Watch Sect’s wave of breakthroughs and singing praises of Li Ping’an’s magnanimity, Li Dazhi became deeply moved:

“I never imagined that Ping’an’s magnanimity had reached such a level.

How can I, as his father, be a drag on him?”

So Li Dazhi summoned millions of Wanyun Immortals and had the “Near-Immortal’s Sea Watch Sect Lecture Scriptures” replicated, offering them for free at the Wanyun Sect’s magic artifact shops along the shores of the East Sea.

This could be seen as a father’s love as firm as a mountain;

It could also be viewed as a successful marketing campaign in the East Continent’s artifact refining business, causing massive feedback in hundreds of towns along the coast of the East Sea.

If the matter had stopped here,

The influence of the situation would have been confined to just the eastern and southwestern regions of the East Continent.

But who would have expected…

The Alliance Hierarch of the Eastern Alliance, being a Taiyi Golden Immortal, heard of this and obtained a transcribed copy.

He watched, pondered, and then let out a long sigh to the heavens.

“Ping’an possesses rare talent and even rarer moral character.

He deserves recognition!”

Thus, the only Taiyi Golden Immortal in the East Continent openly issued a proclamation of commendation a hundred words long.

The commendation emphasized:

[Our Human Race’s Qi Cultivator Li Ping’an is of noble character and refined temperament, with the capacity to be generous and the talent to be awe-inspiring.

His discussion of the ‘happiness’ Dao and the Great Dao of Contemplative Ease are ingeniously similar.

He is hereby commended.

In this age of prosperity for our Human Race, all Qi Cultivators should follow the rules, protect the mundane world, dissolve grievances, and leave past disagreements behind.]

——This was actually the Alliance Hierarch of the Eastern Alliance using the incident to admonish the Human Race Qi Cultivators to get along peacefully and avoid constant strife and killing.

However, the eyes of the vast majority of Loose Cultivators were fixed on the ‘Near-Immortal’s Sea Watch Sect’ lecture and the subsequently circulated “Near-Immortal’s Happiness Scripture.”

After the commendation, the affair completely ‘broke through’ in the East Continent.

In just half a month, Li Ping’an’s “Real Record of the Sea Watch Sect Lecture” evolved into “Great Realization of the Self-Ease Scripture” (Note①).